THE SENATE APPROVED SB4 == FRACKING IS APPROVED IN CALIFORNIA - EXEMPT FROM THE CA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT. AND THE GOVERNOR -- WHO USED TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT -- IS POISED TO SIGN IT! We...

Clear Lake also is an amazing birding site, especially for grebes.

Some of you seem to be using his addiction-behavior opportunistically to castigate him for the vineyard conversion debacle. Not seeing the connect here. It's like impeaching Roosevelt because he was...

That young lady was amazing. I hope she runs for president someday.

No Comment ...

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lynch mob
noun [C]

Definition
› a group of people who want to attack someone who they think has committed a serious crime

(Definition of...

I'm so very impressed by this brave, strong man ... a week ago he issued the statement "America has no functioning democracy" and now this ....
...

I see no efforts at censorship here. I see an individual exasperated with a lynch mob mentality and simply asking that the courtesy, and right, to due process is observed, and in the meantime we all...

For me the truly disturbing thing is that everyone seems to have convicted Efren Carillo without any sort of trial. Has no one out here ever heard of innocent until proved guilty as a concept??I had...

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To Love the World


You know you love the world
When the scent of pine pitch makes you cry
When the sound of grass in wind
Is as good as heaven
Stream water feels like as a lover’s touch
And...

The police did not even test his blood alcohol level and they stated that he wasn't that drunk ... and yet the lynch mob looks no further in their assessment of this incident ... let the facts come...

A Few Lions, No Tigers and One Bear; Oh MY!

West County seems to have caught bear fever. The sightings and tracking of a juvenile black bear (or maybe two) between Sebastopol and Occidental are...

Han Shan


Down in the city
they speed in the streets
Up on the mountain
we walk on the path


Down in the city

The Garden of Love


I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.


And the gates of this Chapel were...

The Boy Died In My Alley


to Running Boy


The Boy died in my alley
without my Having Known.
Policeman said, next morning,
"Apparently died Alone."

Forty Egrets


This morning
cloudy and gray
as I drove the highway
in white shirt and business tie
from my left at ten o'clock high

Barry's letter was also posted on Facebook on the Sonoma County Occupy Town Hall wall there. I responded to that post there. Several people (including Barry) have asked me to include it here:
...

from borowitzreport.com:

Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney set a new personal record tonight by pretending to care about average Americans for nearly ninety minutes. Mr. Romney...

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Here's a video interview with Dan Smith done by the P.D.'s Sonoma Watch.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragyMre_PGU&feature=youtu.be

These Doonesbury panels where from March 12-17, 2012

Some papers including Oregonian and Fort Worth Star Telegram, decided not to run the these, while other papers moved them to the op-ed page.
...

I am volunteering for the LabelGMOs campaign and have been saddened and dismayed by some folks' reactions to paid petition gatherers. I've had an opportunity to talk to quite a few and nearly all...

Sorry folks, I can't attend to this today. I'll clean up and combine the various Farm Market threads this weekend.

Guidelines are that you can't call names or characterize others actions. You can...

Just Sit There

Just sit there right now.
Don't do a thing.
Just rest.

For your separation from God
Is the hardest work in this world.

Let me bring you trays of food

from delancyplace.com:

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In today's encore excerpt - our need to matter and our need to belong are as fundamental
as our need to eat and breathe. Therefore...

Why I Have Stuck My Own Neck Out


Just in case some of you out there in Waccovia think that this one {me-uns} has taken on the thankless task of keeping this “…Hobbs Takeover of the Jenkel...

Let the Record show that the amended text now Reads:


J'Accuse !
The Judgment in John Jenkel's Case Is not "Justice" !

It is wrong, very wrong, that this outrageous seizure and...

Dear Jennifer (and anyone else effected on Saturday night at Aubergine),

I want to apologize for my actions and behavior Saturday night. I have no excuse for how I acted and know my behavior was...

the Bernanke questioned:

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